He's a writer. She's a cop. They fight crime!
It seems like every television season brings us a new crime fighting technique. CSI and Bones have investigators who solve crimes using forensic techniques. Monk has a crime fighter who uses his OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) to notice small details. Medium has a woman who uses her psychic powers to solve murders. Criminal Minds has FBI agents who use psychological profiling to learn about serial killers. Numb3rs uses a mathematician to fight crime.
It occurred to me today that having a person use writing techniques to solve crimes would be a fun show. Of course, many shows have has “mystery writers” who also solve crimes, such as Murder She Wrote, but none of them actually use literary techniques to solve the crimes. The writer would identify moments of foreshadowing and plot points. They would also be sure to remind people when it is too soon to solve the crime. That can only be done in the last ten minutes.
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